Alistar vs Jax
How to Beat Jax as Alistar
based on 4,555 Alistar vs Jax matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Jax Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Jax Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jax as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Jax
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Win Against Jax
Try to engage him in short bursts instead of going toe-to-toe with him. Preventing him from attacking consecutively drastically lowers his damage output.
Jax can dodge all incoming attacks for a very short amount of time and stuns enemies in melee range when it ends. Wait to strike him until after his dodge is finished.
Alistar vs Jax Counter Stats
How to Counter Jax with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several strategic Alistar against Jax counter statistics that can help you understand the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jax’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Jax. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Alistar normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives less damage than Jax. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Jax
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Who is Better, Alistar or Jax?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually loses when playing against Jax, with a 48.6% win rate. Therefore, Alistar makes a poor counter to Jax.
While Alistar does have a lower win rate than Jax, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Alistar into Jaxas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Alistar has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jax. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Jax matchups, Jax is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Alistar is a somewhat poor counter to Jax. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Alistar against Jax.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to counter Jax during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar usually picks up a lot less CS relative to Jax. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Alistar versus Jax build consist of Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar used at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Jax than with most other typical builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 48.6% when countering Jax with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Jax as Alistar, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Alistar vs Jax LoL games, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.6% win rate overall.
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